Ubiquitous sensor network system and method of configuring the same

• US 8,756,299 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2007
• Issued: 06/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ajou University Industry
• Original Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Yonsei University
• Inventors: Kim, Ki-Hyung, Lim, Chae-Seong, Park, Jun-sung
• Primary Examiner(s): Survillo, Oleg
• Application Number:
  US12/525,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20100070618A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,561 Days
• Field of Search: 709/221, 713/100, 370/328
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0813 characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/00 Communication routing or communication path finding
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

In a ubiquitous sensor network (USN) system having a router and a sensor node connectable to a detachable memory device, a sensor network configuration information including a sensor network identification is received from the detachable memory device under control of the router. The sensor network configuration information including the sensor network identification is received from the detachable memory device under control of the sensor node. A sensor network is configured based on the sensor network identification under control of at least one of the router and the sensor node. Accordingly, the USN system may be automatically configured by using the detachable memory devices including the sensor network configuration information.

Claims

1. A method of configuring a ubiquitous sensor network (USN) system having a router and a sensor node connectable to a detachable memory device, the method comprising:

(a) receiving, at the router, a sensor network configuration information from the detachable memory device,

the sensor network configuration information including a sensor network identification, a server information list and a sensor node information list, the server information list including information on servers that are connectable to the sensor node, and the sensor node information list including information on sensor nodes that are included in the ubiquitous sensor network and are capable of configuring the sensor network;

(b) receiving, at the sensor node, the sensor network configuration information from the detachable memory device;

(c) configuring, by at least one of the router and the sensor node, the sensor network by connecting the sensor node and the router to each other based on the sensor network identification, wherein the sensor network is automatically configured, based on the server information list, by coupling the sensor node to a server selected from the server information list when the sensor network configuration information is received from the detachable memory device by at least one of the router and the sensor node; and

(d) reconfiguring the sensor network configured in step (c) by using at least one of the server information list and the sensor node information list, the reconfiguring comprising i) customizing the sensor network by a customizing server from the server information list via checking information or status of the sensor node being registered by the router and coupling of the router to the sensor node and ii) correcting the sensor network configuration information by a router configuration information block having the sensor network identification.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

the sensor node and the selected server are communicating via the Internet.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor network identification corresponds to a unique serial number of the detachable memory device.

4. A ubiquitous sensor network (USN) system comprising:

at least one sensor node configured to receive a sensor network configuration information from a detachable memory device connectable to the sensor node, the sensor network configuration information including a sensor network identification,

a server information list and a sensor node information list, the server information list including information on servers that are connectable to the sensor node, and the sensor node information list including information on sensor nodes that are included in the ubiquitous sensor network and are capable of configuring the sensor network; and

a router configured to receive the sensor network configuration information including the sensor network identification from the detachable memory device, the router being connectable to the detachable memory device,

wherein the sensor node and the router connects to each other to configure the sensor network based on the sensor network identification,

wherein the sensor network is automatically configured, based on the server information list, by coupling the sensor node to a server selected from the server information list when at least one of the sensor node and the router receives the sensor network configuration information from the detachable memory device,

wherein the sensor network is reconfigured by i) a customizing server from the server information list, which customizes the sensor network via checking information or status of the sensor node being registered by the router and coupling of the router to the sensor node and ii) a router configuration information block having the sensor network identification which corrects the sensor network configuration information based on using at least one of the server information list and the sensor node information list.

5. The USN system of claim 4, wherein the selected server is the customizing server.

6. The USN system of claim 4, wherein the sensor node and the selected server are communicating via the Internet.

7. The USN system of claim 4, wherein the sensor network identification corresponds to a unique serial number of the detachable memory device.